Medieval DramaMedieval Drama is a textbook, designed to be used by A level and undergraduate students of theatre and drama. It is divided into two major areas, mystery cycles and morality plays, and it examines the plays from a performance perspective. The book makes special reference to those texts contained within selections of plays which can be readily obtained by students, including A.C.Cawley's Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays (Dent). The staging conventions of pageant waggon performance, place and scaffold playing and the drama of the Hall are explored in relation to the cultural context of the medieval period. |
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Page 32
... seems clear that the N - Town Cycle is a composite cycle which shows attempts to render it as a coherent whole by the insertion of linking passages but which nonetheless retains a visible variety of staging methods . The Old Testament ...
... seems clear that the N - Town Cycle is a composite cycle which shows attempts to render it as a coherent whole by the insertion of linking passages but which nonetheless retains a visible variety of staging methods . The Old Testament ...
Page 56
... seems intended , but his night- spell at 11. 278-86 and the way Gill compares him to the Devil at 1. 407 ( ' Then may we see here the devil in a band ' ) seem rather to be pointers of his nonconformity to conventions rather than ...
... seems intended , but his night- spell at 11. 278-86 and the way Gill compares him to the Devil at 1. 407 ( ' Then may we see here the devil in a band ' ) seem rather to be pointers of his nonconformity to conventions rather than ...
Page 72
... seems likely that the sequence from lines 211 to 218 could cover carrying the Cross either onto the wagon from the ground or down from the wagon and onto a secondary wagon representing the mount . Lines 219 to 225 could then represent ...
... seems likely that the sequence from lines 211 to 218 could cover carrying the Cross either onto the wagon from the ground or down from the wagon and onto a secondary wagon representing the mount . Lines 219 to 225 could then represent ...
Contents
PARTI MYSTERY PLAYS | 3 |
Everyman and other Morality Plays | 97 |
The Place | 108 |
Copyright | |
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Medieval Drama Christine Richardson,Colette Rausch,Jackie Johnston,Leigh A. Payne No preview available - 1991 |
Common terms and phrases
A. C. Cawley Abel Play Abel's actors allegory Angel appear audience audience's biblical Cain and Abel Cain's Castle of Perseverance characters Chester play Christ Christian contrast Corpus Christi plays costumes Coventry Cross Crucifixion Crucifixion Play cycle plays demonstrate Devils didactic ditch EETS effect Elizabethan entertainment episode Everyman fifteenth century God's guilds Hell Interludes Last Judgement Last Judgement Play liturgical liturgical drama London Mankind Medieval Drama Medieval English Drama medieval period Medieval Theatre Mercers Mercy Mischief Morality plays Mummers Mystery Cycles Mystery plays N-Town Cycle N-Town play Noah offer pageant wagon Passion sequence performance physical play world playing area popular possible recognise records reference religious represent response role salvation scaffolds Secunda Pastorum Shepherds Play shows social soldiers souls space spectators speech spiritual stage directions survived theatre tithe Titivillus Towneley Towneley-Wakefield Cycle Towneley-Wakefield play tradition Tudor vices Wakefield Wakefield Master York Cycle